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i tried early in my career to be, and in fact the use the fox phrase, fair and balanced, i use that on the air many years ago. and it did not work. it did not work. i really gave it an effort. i had rush limbaugh on the air and i followed with a friend of ours. alan is a dear friend of mine and alan is a great talk show host. i value him immensely but it did not work there because the conservative audience would not stick around. as soon as we figured that out and started programming the way a music programmer would program, you don't mix country music with jazz. you don't exurban with pop, whatever it may be. we put conservatives in the lineup and all of a sudden we have the conservative from lash-- rush limbaugh. on stations and i have tried liberal talk on, we have created the same environments but up against the conservative station, it paled. it wasn't even close. part of my job as a national program director is to keep tabs on radio ratings nationwide. i look at markets where there is little talk, air america or other avenues of talk and the stations are oftentimes rated 28, 29,
i tried early in my career to be, and in fact the use the fox phrase, fair and balanced, i use that on the air many years ago. and it did not work. it did not work. i really gave it an effort. i had rush limbaugh on the air and i followed with a friend of ours. alan is a dear friend of mine and alan is a great talk show host. i value him immensely but it did not work there because the conservative audience would not stick around. as soon as we figured that out and started programming the way a...
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and they also use it for a bunch of causes that many of us might not agree with. it ends up depleting the services. if you can't fire people and you end up spending most of the money on administration, then kids are getting worse education, right? that's a problem with this. the irony, even -- like in vallejo, city officials have warned members of the public to use the 911 system judicially. so even though the city is spending massive amounts on public safety, they're getting less public safety because that money is going to pensions and to things that are not bends the public. -- benefiting the public. it's leading to depletion of public services. it's hurting us in more than financial ways. well, one spaniels i pointed to -- the unions up in sacramento, they took an action to stop a private group from cleaning up trash along the american river because they wanted union members to be able to do that at union pay scales. but there was no money for them to do that so they would rather have the trash just lying there. so that's another example of how it depletes pub
and they also use it for a bunch of causes that many of us might not agree with. it ends up depleting the services. if you can't fire people and you end up spending most of the money on administration, then kids are getting worse education, right? that's a problem with this. the irony, even -- like in vallejo, city officials have warned members of the public to use the 911 system judicially. so even though the city is spending massive amounts on public safety, they're getting less public safety...
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he outlasted all of us. .. was able to take his place because he just kept going and going and going. decade day after day, week after week. month after month, year after year. decade after decade. and it was an incredible thing to see. but what you will see in these drawings of cartoons, it really is a portrait of everything. it isn't just the "times" the famous or infamous figures. i love early on -- in one of these early cartoons and i was fascinated to go through and see -- when he had the rise of hitler. and he has this little figure marching on the stage in 1932. before hitler became the head of germany. and then you look a couple pages later and he's got hitler with a tommy gun standing up over a globe about to explode, 1934. and herb was in those days and to the end of his life, he was trying to warn america of the dangers of nazism and the terrorism that might be involved with the world war. and to wake us out of our isolationism and our rejection of the world around us and so forth. and i find it just
he outlasted all of us. .. was able to take his place because he just kept going and going and going. decade day after day, week after week. month after month, year after year. decade after decade. and it was an incredible thing to see. but what you will see in these drawings of cartoons, it really is a portrait of everything. it isn't just the "times" the famous or infamous figures. i love early on -- in one of these early cartoons and i was fascinated to go through and see -- when...
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i like to use an example. we are in orange county and the city of fullerton, just to give an idea of how these things happen. council of five members, three republicans, two democrats. two of the democrats and two other republicans both apparently were in favor of retroactive pension increase. this was after all the pension spiking problems that got news coverage, this is recently, after the unfunded liability issues had gotten in the news. this is something -- but they still conspired to expand benefits, retroactively, for their public employees. sutherland council man who contacted me, he contacted me and said, you know what, steve, you need to know what they are doing. at california brown act doesn't allow public officials to relay the details of what's happening in what's called closed session. that's behind closed doors negotiating, but you need to agenda is it that you need to tell people what's happening. at least the nature of the discussion because he told me when i worked at the newspaper, he said th
i like to use an example. we are in orange county and the city of fullerton, just to give an idea of how these things happen. council of five members, three republicans, two democrats. two of the democrats and two other republicans both apparently were in favor of retroactive pension increase. this was after all the pension spiking problems that got news coverage, this is recently, after the unfunded liability issues had gotten in the news. this is something -- but they still conspired to...
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each of us and the picture of the buck. this is a picture next to my kids school and a fire station which the book was dedicated to and these fire men who are playing with my son parish. but then i did not know if it made sense to be in the book in a more if i should talk about pleasant things but all of these are dedicated to 9/11. then i did the illustration for walt whitman. and then this was part of metropolitan transportation. they have these big long frames and they asked me to make up poster before 9/11. it was so long it would not fit so i had this and i placed the landscape of manhattan. somehow the poster came up just after 9/11 it was train number one, two, four and sentimental it was for how people felt and not provoke seeing anything but it was a message to say it is an amazing feeling without being explicit or anything. silk case is still to say i don't have to say macarthur or the will. people say you did the will. and because of that with the metropolitan end transitory eight -- transportation authority they
each of us and the picture of the buck. this is a picture next to my kids school and a fire station which the book was dedicated to and these fire men who are playing with my son parish. but then i did not know if it made sense to be in the book in a more if i should talk about pleasant things but all of these are dedicated to 9/11. then i did the illustration for walt whitman. and then this was part of metropolitan transportation. they have these big long frames and they asked me to make up...
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gathered against our systems that sustain us. like both the food to regrow and animals we raise and what kind of water, supplied water and treatment of waste water and energy, legal and electricity. and each of those categories is a system that has been increasingly industrialized and is increasingly in peril of failing. morrill strassel all of those systems and usually people don't look at them all at one time we give people specializing in electricity one of the things of vital to cities it takes three times as much water to get to the electricity to your home that you use and it does the water that you use so the electricity has an impact on water. so i tried to gather in what police these threats and dimension and here is the central premise. when we industrialize food and water and electricity we have this relentless search for a economy of scale we get bigger so the units get cheaper. well, there is a dark twin to the economy of scale and it's the concentration of risk. everything we do to get bigger and produce more cheap
gathered against our systems that sustain us. like both the food to regrow and animals we raise and what kind of water, supplied water and treatment of waste water and energy, legal and electricity. and each of those categories is a system that has been increasingly industrialized and is increasingly in peril of failing. morrill strassel all of those systems and usually people don't look at them all at one time we give people specializing in electricity one of the things of vital to cities it...
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it is everything to feel that you are useful. making a profit, earning money, getting paid to give people something that they want and that they choose is to feel useful. and it is the greatest joy and our country and our nation's future depend on it. thanks very, very much for your attention. [applause] >> absolutely, yes. questions, comments? arguments? quibbles? saw some people shaking their heads with displeasure. >> al milliken, a.m. media. what other changes have you found out about the way liberal arts colleges have dealt towards business in recent years as opposed to the past? >> look, liberal arts colleges have been by and large hostile to business for a very, very long time. this is nothing new. this goes back, in fact, it goes back to the 1960s. and even to some extent to the 1950s. before then, and one of the things that's happened, there have accident in about books that have been written about this, is the sources of funding for private colleges and universities have changed. and private colleges and universities ar
it is everything to feel that you are useful. making a profit, earning money, getting paid to give people something that they want and that they choose is to feel useful. and it is the greatest joy and our country and our nation's future depend on it. thanks very, very much for your attention. [applause] >> absolutely, yes. questions, comments? arguments? quibbles? saw some people shaking their heads with displeasure. >> al milliken, a.m. media. what other changes have you found out...
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and the parents couldn't tell us how it was. so i am eating with the pics of this is the pictures of all the influences when i am being confused little pioneer of walking industry, and this was all the mix of propaganda with, not only stalin, lenin and khrushchev, but these very different books we read at the time which were about the pilot who was calling to moscow with no legs. it's interesting because if i speak to people from east german and russia today, everyone has the same references and all these things, we were sort of expose, all of us, in the same way. this is dealing with the things that happen in the world. they are not exactly, exactly in the same order of time. but was important was the hungarian uprising, berlin wall, then cuban missile crisis which came much later. president kennedy at berlin wall and his assassination in dallas, vietnam war. this was interesting because i didn't know it was one thing which was common for me in my life with america that we found out we both were hiding under the tables in the f
and the parents couldn't tell us how it was. so i am eating with the pics of this is the pictures of all the influences when i am being confused little pioneer of walking industry, and this was all the mix of propaganda with, not only stalin, lenin and khrushchev, but these very different books we read at the time which were about the pilot who was calling to moscow with no legs. it's interesting because if i speak to people from east german and russia today, everyone has the same references...
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against us if that makes sense. good question. >> i'm curious about your experiences as an arab-american, like were there any prejudice to overcome regarding your ethnicity throughout your childhood or maybe even more currently? >> i was the only arab american in my high school and was one of the few immigrants. there was a bunch of cory in kids and they sold their names said they were no longer, they were like amanda and dominique. i was the only one with a foreign name in my high school and any time -- people who understood i was arab -- i grew up in the 80's, so it wasn't a good time for the arabs on tv and so i definitely felt implicated by all of that and definitely felt like terror every time something blew up for a plane went down because you were going to hear a whole lot of racism and even though i was kind of young i knew that was corrected somehow implicated me. and then in high school and 91 during the first gulf war which is kind of one of the reasons i was a run for the second 1i remember this is an gu
against us if that makes sense. good question. >> i'm curious about your experiences as an arab-american, like were there any prejudice to overcome regarding your ethnicity throughout your childhood or maybe even more currently? >> i was the only arab american in my high school and was one of the few immigrants. there was a bunch of cory in kids and they sold their names said they were no longer, they were like amanda and dominique. i was the only one with a foreign name in my high...
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here it was used because the prisoners were being used in communicado. the next excerpt is when i talked briefly what i called guantanamo one. i was quite shocked that the united states was planning to use guantanamo as its offshore prison again. i say again because i had been one of the attorneys who had worked on an earlier guantanamo case. when the administration of george h.w. bush and bill clinton had used the military base as an offshore refugee camp for haitians who were entitled to asylum in the united states but who were prohibited from entering the country because they were hiv positive. i had learned the important lessons -- i learned important lessons from that litigation. first i learned that guantanamo was a really bad place to be imprisoned. i compared the refugee camp to dante's ninth circle of hell with extreme heat, scorpions and extreme beatings. the two prior administrations had argued and somewhat successfully that exult was a law-free zone and was not protected by the constitution and no one could protect their rights. within a coup
here it was used because the prisoners were being used in communicado. the next excerpt is when i talked briefly what i called guantanamo one. i was quite shocked that the united states was planning to use guantanamo as its offshore prison again. i say again because i had been one of the attorneys who had worked on an earlier guantanamo case. when the administration of george h.w. bush and bill clinton had used the military base as an offshore refugee camp for haitians who were entitled to...
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use a pin or use a typewriter, using those days, typewriters. he talked. and his talks were taped. and he had other people sort of listened to tapes and put them into print. and that's the way he worked and that's what he has this long, long bibliography which goes beyond the published books to probably dozens of reports. another way that he sponged was he loved -- i did this several times within. he loved to go to bookstores. the day with the really big, not barnes & noble times, and he walked around the bookstore with a salesperson and said one of those, one of those, one of those. ship them to me that they were not for books, they were like 45 books. and when i walked into his office, it was just bolting with books. against all the walls. piled up on the desk, everywhere. and i said to herman once, how do you find time to read these books? anti-sort of smiled, and he said, i absorb them osmosis. [laughter] >> and i think he really did believe he could do that. when you walk into herman's office, he had a big desk piled high with books, and a reclining chair. and he was very roun
use a pin or use a typewriter, using those days, typewriters. he talked. and his talks were taped. and he had other people sort of listened to tapes and put them into print. and that's the way he worked and that's what he has this long, long bibliography which goes beyond the published books to probably dozens of reports. another way that he sponged was he loved -- i did this several times within. he loved to go to bookstores. the day with the really big, not barnes & noble times, and he...
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is this a dictionary will use in school? >> we do not have this dictionary which is why people are buying books for the library. we have seen many people so we are hoping to see these in the library at the school. >> thank you. we've got two more students is. is it mya? hi, mya, hauer do? what are you reading right now? >> i am reading a book called the mystery of the blue down ghost and i have been reading a book with various stories called chicken soup for the teenage seÓul and it's about how teenagers deal with problems at school and with their life and stuff and how to overcome those problems and it's really nice because, like, we are all in middle school becoming teachers and stuff, so, like, that's why i picked that book to read. >> would you enjoy most about the seed school and how did you get in it? >> my friend told me about the seed school so i really wanted to apply because i've always been wanting to go to a boarding school and i thought it would be a fun experience and my favorite part about the seed school is
is this a dictionary will use in school? >> we do not have this dictionary which is why people are buying books for the library. we have seen many people so we are hoping to see these in the library at the school. >> thank you. we've got two more students is. is it mya? hi, mya, hauer do? what are you reading right now? >> i am reading a book called the mystery of the blue down ghost and i have been reading a book with various stories called chicken soup for the teenage seÓul...
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some of us were uncomfortable doing so. others were worried about funding as ccr depends on private donations and foundations. would it be personally dangerous to represent those accused of the attacks? of course, it was possible that those accused were innocent. but at the time we took the cases we had to assume our clients might not be. we decided that the military order was so contrary to law and represented such a threat to fundamental liberties that we needed to challenge it particularly its denial of habeas corpus. once we made the commitment to challenge the november 13th order, we went public with our decision and as a means of putting the administration on notice that its overreaching would not go unchallenged and to encourage those critics who might be more timid to fight back. our next step was to try and round up a legal team for what we saw would be major cases. we found some attorneys from the law firm sherman & sterling. we had difficulty finding others to work for the possible case for the reasons i mentione
some of us were uncomfortable doing so. others were worried about funding as ccr depends on private donations and foundations. would it be personally dangerous to represent those accused of the attacks? of course, it was possible that those accused were innocent. but at the time we took the cases we had to assume our clients might not be. we decided that the military order was so contrary to law and represented such a threat to fundamental liberties that we needed to challenge it particularly...
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i remember that my friends that use use to go by from the military barracks. it just seemed like the drug issue is starting to emerge and there was knowledge about it, but no one was stopping this drug cartels from functioning for me to el paso in 1991 and my first class, first semester as a young professor there was a student in the u.s. immigration authorities. as an immigration agent for the u.s. government come used to come to class in his uniform. i found interesting or gold necklace with this huge gold anchor on it all the time. but he was not a very good students. but all of a sudden i saw his name and photograph in the paper and he had been arrested for collaborating with the cartel and the look what juarez. and why are busted in los angeles and 1991 but it was the largest confiscation of drugs in world history. all of those strikes came 138 and el paso amendment to other places. the reason i wrote this book is basically the book fell in to my lap, in my neighborhood, in my classes, in the stores. everywhere i went to my people were involved in drug tr
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there are those of us trying to serve. now we have the task -- many of them -- >> let me say two things. if you look at the rhetoric around schizophrenia. there was a stream of mass american culture. this form of mental illness, other kinds of things. it was a problem with us in the mainstream. what happens over the course of this history is among other things services are cut away. it forces people at the front lines like yourself to not just care in the financial and social support. in terms of one particular case. issues like mistrust might have emerged not because of this case. is happening in more subtle ways. it is a multifaceted issue that is not an linked to the issues we were talking about. this is not just from doctors into a ski. >> we're looking about ways to address them. not engaging the community, >> hi was wondering if schizophrenia was an illness. >> there are different reasons why that is. having to do with different kinds of angle. how did schizophrenia occupy a cultural position. i look at it in relatio
there are those of us trying to serve. now we have the task -- many of them -- >> let me say two things. if you look at the rhetoric around schizophrenia. there was a stream of mass american culture. this form of mental illness, other kinds of things. it was a problem with us in the mainstream. what happens over the course of this history is among other things services are cut away. it forces people at the front lines like yourself to not just care in the financial and social support. in...
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could you tell us that story? >> host: you can tell this story. >> guest: you are their. >> host: before you ask a question, i tell you the story about. >> guest: , well, he was so convinced that the americans were bugging his hotel room that he figured if he exploded with anger, they would be listening and they would change their policy. now as i -- i asked the state department and the fbi if they were bugging the rooms, and they told me no. i don't know whether that's true or not, but they did change their policy after that. but perhaps because gromyko went and talked to large. i don't know whether they were bugging them or not. but khrushchev assumed they were. >> host: the routine of all these people, of what they did it. and from this politics to some personal questions not so many times. you just writing that khrushchev have the appetite for eating everything in the breakfast, and you making fun of these and khrushchev explained this, that he taking a day off of it died because he had the kidney problem and
could you tell us that story? >> host: you can tell this story. >> guest: you are their. >> host: before you ask a question, i tell you the story about. >> guest: , well, he was so convinced that the americans were bugging his hotel room that he figured if he exploded with anger, they would be listening and they would change their policy. now as i -- i asked the state department and the fbi if they were bugging the rooms, and they told me no. i don't know whether that's...
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each offers us a perspective on the narrative that has been told to us in hamas cue lynn voice and from a masculine point of view. no matter how internately their lives were intertwined with those of their husbands, these women narrate the events in a different tempo and in a different cadence from those men. and their stories, taken together, i believe, and i hope you will agree, help us reconstruct their era with greater depth and greater complexity. thank you. [applause] >> carol has graciously said if you have any comments or questions, she will take them. >> i always tell my students, don't ask me anything i don't know the answer to. yes. >> i think you know the answer to this one. i'm on special assignment for mary chestnut, and i'm us impressed by the sense that she gave, that she and greta davis were good buddies. >> oh, yes. she and mary chestnut. mary chestnut was as smart as varina was and sarcastic about the other women and other things and mary chestnut and varina would sit together in richmond, where the ladies of richmond -- first of all, to the ladies of richmond, varin
each offers us a perspective on the narrative that has been told to us in hamas cue lynn voice and from a masculine point of view. no matter how internately their lives were intertwined with those of their husbands, these women narrate the events in a different tempo and in a different cadence from those men. and their stories, taken together, i believe, and i hope you will agree, help us reconstruct their era with greater depth and greater complexity. thank you. [applause] >> carol has...
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luckily for us you did it right here in the present. the initial correspondence of work force that might be quarterly to explain the arrived like some carow shot backwards and forwards from some gilded new age i think it was the third or fourth transmission i ever received via this new technology e-mail. send us your pieces that have been rejected by other publishers and magazines. it's no wonder then that the writers gave edgar's assembled make such a strange forest. these rejects were at first sampled by readers of some sort of curious delicacy. but under his editorship the same have become the jury basis of what is possible and contemporary literature. chris adrianne, and cummings, sheila, james, kelly, amy, steven elliott,@@@ú@ú >> i was just telling samantha i didn't know she was with child. it's been a little while putting it isn't fate, it's something become of something to engender sympathy from the audience. i'm going to try to be brief. i have -- i don't have a well-written speech. i'm going to battle a little bit. i'm very
luckily for us you did it right here in the present. the initial correspondence of work force that might be quarterly to explain the arrived like some carow shot backwards and forwards from some gilded new age i think it was the third or fourth transmission i ever received via this new technology e-mail. send us your pieces that have been rejected by other publishers and magazines. it's no wonder then that the writers gave edgar's assembled make such a strange forest. these rejects were at...
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thanks for being with us. i'm michael jenkins. you heard the sound bites from flip nape things get worse for the wizards. over the past couple of days, that's exactly what is happening. the gun allegations involving gilbert arenas have taken another turn. source tell espn the argument between arenas and javaris crittenton began during a card game on a return flight from phoenix on december 19. two days later arenas allegedly placed three guns in front of crittenton in the locker room and told him to choose one. however the washington post said the dispute was over who had the biggerun gun. for more, we take you to the game tonight. we find chris. what's the latest on your end? >> the latest is. gilbert arenas is going to play tonight. in fact he's going to start. as it pertains to the to the investigation it's still in the ongoing process. i haven't been able to confirm in gilbert arenas has spoken to officials about the incident. with my report yesterday from my sources gilbert arenas did not pull a gun out on javaris crittenton.
thanks for being with us. i'm michael jenkins. you heard the sound bites from flip nape things get worse for the wizards. over the past couple of days, that's exactly what is happening. the gun allegations involving gilbert arenas have taken another turn. source tell espn the argument between arenas and javaris crittenton began during a card game on a return flight from phoenix on december 19. two days later arenas allegedly placed three guns in front of crittenton in the locker room and told...